Let God Be True by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 5, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 52.

Let God Be True

By Editor

"Let God Be True."—It is thus that a poem by James Buckham, in the Congregationalist, begins:—

"Strange how we think of Death, The angel beloved of God."

The doctrine of man's inherent immortality has among Christians been sung into man, and the poets, who borrow from the myths and traditions of paganism, are largely responsible. Death is an enemy. God so declares it when he says, "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." 1 Cor. 15:26. Death is simply finished sin. James 1:15. God is righteousness and life, and in that glad future, after sin has shown its true character, sin and its results will both be destroyed, and there shall be no more death. Rev. 20:14; 21:4. Death is an enemy abhorred of God. "Let God be true, but every man a liar." Rom. 3:4. Read the article in another column entitled "Life and Death."